Solr Index Speed on EBS
If youve got your Solr index on an Amazon EBS volume, save yourself some headache and do this every time you make a new volume: sudo nohup dd if=/dev/xvdi…
Prototype Angular UIs Without A Backend
So youve got an AngularJS UI built out, but youll need a fleshed-out backend before being able to really take it for a test drive, right? Actually, it turns…
Migrating American Medical Association’s search to Solr
Our client, Silverchair Information Systems, recently completed a successful migration of the American Medical Association’s search over to Solr. Leveraging Silverchair’s semantic platform, weve helped migrate Silverchairs SCM platform…
Building the Perfect Cassandra Test Environment
A month back, one of our clients asked us to set up 15 individual single-node Cassandra instances, each of which would live in 64MB of RAM and each of…
Why we chose to invest in client-side search applications
On a recent enterprise search project we were tasked with taking over six million documents and making them searchable by the general public, all within a very short development…
SolrCloud as a Windows Service
Want to setup a simple solrCloud network on Windows? If you are just running a couple nodes and intend to run the embedded ZooKeeper heres how to get it…
Semantic Search with Solr and Python Numpy
Built upon Lucene, Solr provides fast, highly scalable, and easily maintainable full-text search capabilities. However, under the hood, Solr is really just a sophisticated token-matching engine. Whats missing? –…
Instant Search with Solr and AngularJS
Previously, we gave an example of a super simple search results widget that utilized jsonp and AngularJS. Since then, we’ve polished our Angular skills quite a bit. Enough so,…
Four reasons we’re really excited about FoundationDB
As you might have heard, FoundationDB became publicly available this week. As we’ve discussed in the past, we’re very excited here at OpenSource Connections about this emerging database. After…
Name Search in Solr
Remember the good ole days of “Alpha by Author”? Searching names is a pretty common requirement for many applications. Searching by book authors, for example, is a pretty crucial…
Two Solr Training Courses Coming to Charlottesville in October
Coming this October, OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present two separate Solr training courses. Read on for all the details! Solr Unleashed- October 21-22 Solr…
OSC welcomes you to the Friday after 12 Hack-and-Tell
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…